given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law : but the Scripture hath concluded (hath shut vp) all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to all that believe. Wherefore the lazv was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith^T
Next, let us hear the ceremonial law. In all the burnt-offerings, and the peace-offerings, and the sin- offerings, a fundamental part of the institution was, that the person who brought the offering should put his hand on the head of the victim, in token that he transferred all his sins to it ; and then, when the sacrifice was slain, and its blood sprinkled according to the commandment, the offender was liberated from the sin that he had committed^. But we will direct your attention to the offerings which were annually made for the sins of all Israel, on the great day of atonement. Two goats were taken : one was to be slain for a sin-offering for the whole people of Israel, and its blood was to be carried within the vail, and sprinkled upon the mercy-seat, and before the mercy- seat. Then the live goat was brought forth, and the high-priest was to lay both his hands upon his head, and to confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat : and then the goat was to be led away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness, bearing upon him all their iniquities, unto a land not inhabited ^ Can any thing be conceived more plain and simple than this ? Who does not see that the sins of the people were expiated by the blood of the one, and carried away in consequence of their having been transferred to the other ? Who does not here see written, as with a sun-beam, the truth it typified ; namely, that *' Christ died for our offences, and was raised again for our justification ;" and that we are saved entirely by the exercise of faith in him, or, in other words, by transferring our guilt to him, and looking for mercy
a Gal. iii. 19 — 24. '' Lev. i. ii. iii. <= Lev. xvi. 15, 21, 22.